Improved composition of matter



NN, OF NEW YORK, l\'. Y., ASSIGNOR TO AMERIQYAN 3531M)- INE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

STUART GWY Letters Patent No. 101,861, dated April 12, 1870; antedatwl 1LT arch Si 18?).

IMPROVED COMPOSITION OI MATTER, CALLED "METALINE," FOR JDURNALS, BEe's3f- ING-S, 84c.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To whom it y ring in the mill or mixer is continued. The mass Be it known that I, STUART Gwrxx, of the city of then to be subjected to severe pressure in amold, to New York, in the county of New York and State of give it the required degree of solidity. New York, have invented a new Composition of Mat- I u journal-boxes made of or lined with this compoter, which I denominate Metaline No. 1, designed sition, journals may be practically run at a high rate for the purpose of journal-boxes, journal-box linings, of speed without a lubricant. and other similar articles having surfaces that are in- While I intend to limit myself in this specification tended to be subjected in use to friction.

The nature of my invention consists in cornbining said composition, whose conditions need modification lignum-vitze and spermaeeti, or their equivalents, to convert it into metaline, other products of vegeupon the principles and in pursuance of the method table growth besides liguum-vitze, its equivalents for fully described and illustrated in the specification anthe purpose intended, may be employed, and other nexed to my application for Letters Patent fora proagents besides spermaccti, its equivalents for the cess for making metaline, filed in the Patent Oflice purpose intended, may be used. So also the relative simultaneously herewith, and to which reference is proportions of the lignum-vitze and spermaceti, or made, whereby I produce a composition of matter their equivalents, above stated, maybe varied within having such properties and conditions that so little the limits of the processhereinheflire referred'to, withfriction will be caused, and so little heat developed in out departing from the spirit of my invention. the practical use of the above-named articles made of it, in machinery and elsewhere in the arts, that the, necessity for the application of oil or any other luhri- 1 claim as my invention l Va [111.

cant to their surfaces is entirely obviated. The manufacture or preparation of a composition To make this composition of matter I take of ligof matters, which I denominate Metaline No. 1, num-vitze' wood eighty parts by weight, and reduce it when the same possesses the properties, and is comto a. fine powder, by first rasping or sawing it and pounded ofthe ingredients or their equivalents, in the then grinding it in a bur-stone or other suitable mill. proportions, by the process, and for the purposes set I then take of spermaceti twenty parts, and first mix forth. with it about an equal proportion of the wood powder, i FlUARl GWYNN. by grinding them together in a suitable mill or mixer Witnesses: until completely mixed. I then add the rest of the J. P. Frrcn, powder, a little at a time, while the grinding or stiri Huxnif N. Mruarr.

to vegetable substances for the principal element of 

